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Former banker and business consultant with 20+ years of experience on an international level. Bilingual (German and English, conversant in French), expert in implementing and scaling social enterprises, impact investing with an extensive 5 year on-the-ground knowledge of the Indian ecosystem seeking challenging short or long term assignments (consultant or permanent). I am willing to travel. |
 Contact Martin Vogelsang PhD
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
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Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Professional Experience: |
FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR GOOD ROOTS, Berlin, Germany:
Good Roots (http://good-roots.org) is a Berlin- and India-based impact investment and consulting firm, which combines expertise in the areas of incubation and investment into social enterprises with alternative impact measurement for mission-oriented organizations – be they foundations, corporations or private individuals. Good Roots invests patient capital and on-the-ground technical advisory in its portfolio organizations, supporting them in developing and streamlining their business models and creating all-round social enterprises to leverage their potential.
We are currently launching an Impact Investing Fund in cooperation with SOCIAL SYNERGY from Mumbai, India(http://sosynergy.org) as an impact investing vehicle for early stage social enterprises; strong focus on patient capital/grants and social impact.
DIRECTOR FEM SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL SOLUTIONS, Bangalore, India,
2010 - June 2015:
An extensive background in directing economic development and entrepreneurial ventures, my most recent focus has been on incubating social business models focussing on the people living at the "Bottom of the Pyramid". Among others I managed a community-based water supply project that is highlighted as an India-wide success model for similar organizations. Further, our organisation successfully cooperated with a for-profit-technology provider and a local NGO to pilot and replicate a rural housing model in Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh).
After operating for 5 years in India we can offer a clear value proposition for the local social enterprise sector as well as for funders and investors from abroad.
We see three areas of work for us:
1. Continuing our operations providing seed funding and investments as well as technical support. Our focus is on “last mile” consultations and executions.
2. Advisory research to enable strategic investing – supporting impact investors
3. Consulting Corporations on Social Investments in India
Our value proposition is based on the realisation that if there are markets at the "Bottom-of-the-Pyramid” at all, they first need to be facilitated. And for this kind of market development it takes cooperation with local entities.
We believe that partnerships between a variety of players such as social enterprises, NGOs, corporations, communities and government enable the creation of effective solutions that can be incrementally replicated.
CONSULTANT, Berlin, Germany / Bangalore, India
2009 - Present:
Providing expertise in the areas of Capacity Building, Business Design at the BoP and Monitoring & Evaluation.
Clients:
- Jacobs Foundation (Switzerland)
- Deutsch-Arabische Industrie- und Handelskammer - AHK (German-Arabian
Chamber of Commerce): Project for start-up social ventures in Cairo (Egypt)
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland)
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Education: |
PhD in Business Ethics, Department of Economics Universitaet Eichstaett, Chair of Business Ethics,Grade: Magna Cum Laude
PhD thesis “The Power of the German Banks – a Sociopolitical Problem Analyzed by Means of Modern Economic Theory”
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
UNIVERSITY LECTURESHIP, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany 2009 - 2010
Lecturer, Public and Nonprofit Management:
Instructed Undergraduate classes on the topics of political and legal aspects of “Transparency and Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector”; utilized case studies from EU project work at GuideStar Deutschland.
DIRECTOR GUIDESTAR DEUTSCHLAND, Berlin, Germany, 2004 - 2009
Founder and National Program Director:
• Partnered to generate $1.8M € in funding under the EU Commissions eTEN program.
• Managed a 5 country research team to develop a web portal to aide in establishing transparency and accountability nonprofit organizations.
• Introduced performance metrics and partnered with a global network (www.guidestar.org) that supports nonprofit transparency and accountability through detailed online reporting on civil society organizations within each member country.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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